Project Coin is an effort to add a set of small Java language changes to JDK 7. Early phases of Project Coin included an open call for proposals period and many design discussions have occurred on the OpenJDK coin-dev mailing list. The subsequent implementations of the features are in the OpenJDK 7 Hg repositories and the features are also supported in NetBeans 7 beta builds. Besides the actual features and their development, the talk will also discuss experiences in community involvement in on-going language evolution.
Credits
Speaker: Joe Darcy
FOSDEM 2011 Free Java Organisation: Andrew Haley, Andrew Hughes, Tom Marble, Christian Thalinger, Mark Wielaard